Tag: anxiety

Are Cell Phones Really Destroying Kids’ Mental Health?

Those who agree with Haidt appreciate his well-crafted anecdotes and easy prescriptions. His critics, meanwhile, tend to point out a tendency to overlook the wider context and jump to conclusions. (Haidt “is a gifted storyteller,” developmental psychologist Candice Odgers wrote in her review in Nature, “but his tale is currently one searching for evidence.”) What […]

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New autism research projects represent a broad range of approaches to achieving a shared goal

From studies of the connections between neurons to interactions between the nervous and immune systems to the complex ways in which people understand not just language, but also the unspoken nuances of conversation, new research projects at MIT supported by the Simons Center for the Social Brain are bringing a rich diversity of perspectives to […]

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